Stocking Your Summer Medicine Cabinet (Plus 23 recipes)

As I scroll through my Pinterest board for home remedies, most of the things I see are flu remedies and cough medicine. While you might need these during the summer, it’s more likely that you will be hunting for bug bite spray, poison ivy salve, and sun burn relief.

I decided I needed to update my board (and my medicine cabinet) with all my favorite summer home remedies and recipes. I encourage you to pin these recipes and remedies and even make some of them now, before you need them.

Summertime means fun adventures outside and if you have kids, that means lots of boo boos including bug bites, sunburns, scrapes, bumps, poison oak, bee stings, and more. Don’t wait until you get home from a long day at the beach – your entire family sun-burnt and exhausted – and try to figure out a natural, home remedy to soothe the pain. Stock your summer medicine cabinet now.

Dealing with Pests and Bugs

Bugs and their bites are a common problem through summer. The easiest way to deal with these pests is to avoid them in the first place with recipes below, but you might find yourself having to deal with bites!

Dealing with the Sun

Choosing which sunscreen to use is a big deal as most commercial sunscreens are full of harmful chemicals and can cause more damage than good. But avoiding sunburn is also really important so here are a few natural, homemade sunscreens to try or whip up a batch of sunburn relief if you need.

About Jami Balmet

Jami is passionate about Biblical Homemaking and striving to be a woman of God. Jami and her loving husband Jason,recently welcomed twin baby boys into their home. She has a heart for hospitality and making her home an inviting place that reflects Christ. She blogs about this passion at Young Wife's Guide. She is also passionate about creating a healthy and thriving home and shares recipes, tips, and tutorials at Homemaking From Scratch.

Comments

I recently placed a garlic poultice on my knee where I had such pain could not bend my knee for
about two and half month, no one seemed to be able to help me. Then there was a missionary in
Bismarck who a friend went to listen to for arthritis place a garlic poultice (fresh) six hours you will
have a blister, well I did have a blister but I also had a greenish discharge and pain free.
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Thank you so much for this post. We too use natural remedies. This summer we’ve been spraying the kids down with clove oil and water, it seems to repel those pesky bugs. We’ve also found a great tea-tree oil cream to help with swelling and to clear up any bites they’ve gotten when we neglected the clove spray.

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